<p>Post-graduate programs in boarding schools seem interesting, but I don’t know how they work. How do post-graduate programs work and how do they fit in with applying to college?</p>
<p>I know a couple of kids who did a PG year. One was an athlete who had set his sights on his dream college, Dartmouth. He used that year to take AP classes and independent study, and gained a year of maturity as a basketball player. He did reach his goal and has now graduated from Dartmouth.
The other one was a young woman who was from a public school in NY. She did the PG year because her parents felt she really needed a year of living away from home, learning to manage her time, and basically gaining independence in a very supportive environment, before they would support her desire to go away to college.</p>
<p>Most of the kids I hear about doing a PG year are athletes. But a girl in my town did a PG year at NMH after being home schooled for years (she was an athlete too, but an individual sport). Her parents wanted her to have a year of formal schooling before she went to college.</p>
<p>During your senior year in HS you apply to boarding school instead of (along with?) college. Then when you start your PG year you do your college applications. During the year you take classes and participate in sports. Pretty similar to a senior’s schedule.</p>